About Lyra

Lyra started with a simple act. A group of engineers helped their roommates build a product from scratch. Six weeks later that product launched, and shortly after it raised over $2M pre-seed. That company was Paraform (now a $65M Series B), and that moment is the reason Lyra exists.

Today we're 80+ engineers across Australia who have shipped for 75+ Silicon Valley startups backed by YC, a16z and Sequoia. Now we're going all in on FDE as a service: AI infrastructure companies and fast-growing AI startups bring us in to get their platform live inside their customers' stacks, and our Forward Deployed Engineers make it happen.

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Lyra, you're the engineer a customer meets when they need something real shipped on AI infrastructure. You embed with a customer's team, scope the work, build it, take it to production and hand it over clean. Then you do it again for the next one.

Our launch partner is a publicly listed AI cloud provider (GPU cloud, hosted open models and inference). Their customers are venture backed, compute heavy companies: model labs, voice and video AI, physical AI and robotics, and agent companies serving their own models. You'll help those teams train, post-train and serve models on the platform, and you'll partner with AI startups that need FDEs to roll their product out to enterprise customers.

What you'll do

- Own customer rollouts end to end: discovery, scoping, build, launch and handover
- Serve custom and open models with vLLM or SGLang on GPU VMs, Kubernetes or serverless endpoints,



with autoscaling and monitoring
- Stand up training and fine-tuning: multi-node GPU clusters (Kubernetes or Slurm), LoRA and full fine-tunes, data in object storage, experiment tracking in MLflow
- Plug AI products into customers' existing stacks (APIs, auth, data, CRM, telephony)
- Build the reusable kit: migration scripts, benchmark harnesses, sample repos, onboarding guides and customer workshops
- Be the trusted technical voice in the room with founders, CTOs and the partner's solutions team

What we're looking for

- 3+ years shipping production software at startups or software companies. This role is for mid-level and senior engineers.
- Strong backend or full-stack engineering in Python and/or TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with LLMs in production: inference APIs, evals, RAG or agents
- Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure), Docker and Kubernetes
- You've owned a project from scoping to production with real users, not just tickets
- Clear, confident communication with customers, technical and non-technical
- Based in Australia

Why Lyra

- Work at the front line of AI infrastructure, with the GPUs and models the best AI companies run on
- Transparent, level-based progression, with quick promotions and the ability to skip levels on skill
- Performance bonus tied to customer outcomes
- Access to our Silicon Valley VC and founder network
- Free catering daily, plus drinks and snacks
- Top-of-the-line work equipment
- Hybrid work from our Sydney office in Barangaroo
- Weekly sports and activities funded by Lyra

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Lyra
📍 Sydney